Word: frightener
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...Lothrop Stoddard, Brookline, Mass. political lecturer and author, whose racial theories (he used to frighten the U. S. with the yellow peril) make him persona grata to Nazis, went recently to Germany as correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Last week glib Dr. Stoddard got an interview with Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Addressing the little doctor as a "master psychologist," Interviewer Stoddard asked how come the Germany of 1940, unlike that of 1914, has no hurrah spirit...
...this advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away the spirits of darkness...
...villages whose occupants had not fled quickly enough, the first action of the Japanese was to rout out the women and have at them; women who fled to grainfields for hiding were forced out by cavalry who rode their horses through the grain fields to trample them and frighten them into appearance...
...accounts of red nests and Moscow gold and police visits (no such police visit as the CRIMSON describes over occurred) are amusing, do doubt, but our laughter becomes a little wry when we see how this complements on a potty local scale the attempts of the Dies Committee to frighten liberals and progressives into inactivity and silence...
...clear," Professor Fay said, "what Hitler and Ribbentrop expected to get out of the Russo-German treaty of friendship of August 22.... They believed that the German Soviet combination would also frighten England and France from giving their promised support to Poland...